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Show LEAGUE COVENANT assailed ey i. SEMTOR JOHMSOH T W Abbott, chalrnran of the meet ing held at the Alhambra tltearer Sal I t'rday afternoon at which Senator Hi-(ram Hi-(ram Johnson spoke on the league of ! nations covenant, said in introducing :tbe distinguished visitor. I "I have the distinguished honor of .presenting to you ih'.r afternoon one I Of California's bst citizens and one cf the foremost citizens of our coun i try. the Honorable Iliram Johnson ' Senator Johnson was .rooivd .vith cheers and prolonged app'auso as he rose, stepping forward i b gin his I address. Into whica he iramediae : launched Among those from Ogden on (.he j (Continued on Page 11) oo LEAGUE COVENANT ASSAILED BY SENATOR JOHNSON I m platform during Senator Johnson's address ad-dress were Apostle D. O. McKay, W. H wattts, Rev P. M. Cushnahan, Abbot Ab-bot R- Heywood Arthur L. Woolley, H w W, Itanson, J. X Pierce. J. R. Aard. Thomas E. McKay. F. J. Hen- lA dershot. J M Forristall, Dr. A. S. iondon, J U. Eldredge. Jr., L. J. Holther, .lames II. Douglas, Jack Llt-tlefield. Llt-tlefield. George McOloud. H L Bell. F. C. Smith John Farr. L W Bhurt- liff B. I ppman, Joseph H 1 owlea and I. Eeltman. immediately after his address, Senator Sen-ator Johnson and his party left for gait Lake, being accompanied by a number of people from gden as well as the Salt Lake committee His address follows in part Mr Chairman and my fellow cltl- j . n: I am delighted that the oppor ninity le mine today to talk to you Lf .ihout the all engrossing topic in our kif , t ion now, I am more than glad that in 'he middle of an afternoon such a concourso of people in this citj hould come to hear a discussion upon y ;, n academic world question wholli ft divorced from the hot enthusiasm of a political campaign, .nd without reference refer-ence to partisanship or personality at all. oF .RA EST MOMENT "We are now facing in our njtion a matter of the gravest moment i odty the republic stands .it the crossroads cross-roads of Its destiny. n one hand ihere is the sinuous and the tortuous, path of European and Asiatic diplo macy. 1 'n the other hanu there is jum he straight and narrow path of Americanism, Amer-icanism, fcnd it is this latter path that S0m of ns at "Washington have chosen ai.d we are going along that path, my friends until v.e attain the goal. (Ap-F (Ap-F plause ) When American rights, American privileges, the Amorican constitution and our son's sons shall be saved absolutely and protected, i . pplause 1 The league of nations which has i een presented to us originally, in the propaganda in its behalf, fell upon rcry. very fertile soil Every man abhors ab-hors war, every woman detects war And out of the awful welter of the last few years, all normal men and m.men hoped and longed and prayed mat there should something come which would foreer preclude another jffi catastrophe such as wo witnessed In mt. The past few ears Every one of U3 looked with straining eyes and longing hearts at the proceedings In Paris, all IR of us, with just one though in mind w mat from these proceedings there ' might come lo us something that i would prevent nations and peoples ' again being at one another t throats In such a strife as we witnessed re cently. All of us with this end In h view were watching, watching carefully, care-fully, hopefully, prayerfully tho pro-it. pro-it. edlngs across the water And so It vaj that when there came to us advance ad-vance sheets In special term through-i through-i out the land, going from city to city, .ind from state to state, and county to I county, telling us of the lrtues of an undisclosed and unknown document. W .oiherenc enthusiastically rushed lo . thern. and all over the land there was a chant 'To promote peacu. and pre- t vent war,' and all of us. because of 1 I that which we had seen, because of I j th" anguish that came to ns from this I r.wful strife, Joined in the chant, until I we swelled it onto the nation enihusl-I enihusl-I .-..-ucally, Tromoto peace and prevent r v ar.' OLIGARCHY OF N TION l I yield to no man. no matter who r ', ;ie Is, in a desire to prevent war, but t I 3 111 not yield my son. and I will not cdicate our sons to everv v. ar which Wf may occur in Europe in tho future, nor will I dedicate my boys and your boys to the maintenance of the empire 1 of Great Britain or Japan ( Ap-I B plause.) And it is just this Hung that K v.ms presented to us by the league of j nation. It Is not a league to prevent war at all, it is an oligarchy of five great nations, only one of wni'h wa ei netitute, which will rule the work. I . ust exactly as had other national y ruled the world during all the past. , It is the design not to prevnt war, I ut the design of it 1p. ns we will dem-".-trate to you before we conclude, to i ake the one greatest democracy on p !:is earth, the great virile republican I form of government, the only lasting I cne the Lord has ever proclaimed in I Hf'l the world, your nation and mine, to R become a part of every embroil, and Jt every encounter, and every battle on f I iv.q othr side say to us that we must fc fcdopt the league of nations because I ' no longer we ran maintain the posi-i posi-i v.Uon of personal isolation which has r t ' ekn oure 'n the past. They say to Uo ; t th"t wo have entered upon our world P career, we have become a part of I world politics and having become a I E '-irt of world politics, entered upon s our world career we can no longer h t be ourselves and nei longer have the L isolation that has been ours in the NEVER BEEV ISOLATED V have never been isolated from H lh? rest of tho world, in eny -vv;.y.: y neither social, financial or commercial J cr otherwise; tho only isolation which I lias been ours has been KTeotfraphkally, I r. 'he Lord gave us our two -,ea'. o cans; i one upon one side of th ountry and the other upon the other. And ther-.-i o gTent oce-ans have afforded u ' i thj only isolation we huve evef h.id .n our land, and the Atlantic and the l -tclfic ocean, put there by 'be Lord, :ie league of nations nnd Mr. Wilbon 1 cannot dry up, and i we will con-'inue con-'inue within our gcosraplllcal laols i tiun In the past. The; assert to iik that all the sacrifices that have been made in this war would have been In Viln unless we enter this league. Not so, not at all All the graves In tho Marne. and in northern France will have been in vain If we condemn our . fons and our son's sons to all future L wars of Europe and of A in Thov k' Say to us as well that we must throw In our fortunes with the rest of the i "orld stabilize all the world, is the term that they use by thus throwing f In our fortunes with the rest of the I World. What this means is not throwing throw-ing in our fortune? with the rest of the t world, but throwing our fortunes lo the rest of the world, and 1 am not uulte ready to do that as an American citizen. PRESENTING NETf DOCUMENT 'They assert that this is the only document presented, and I have had '"keel me vf r vehemently and some fy. :me very angrily, 'What do you present pres-ent in place." 'And If you cannot Present something Instead of this par- , icular document you must adopt this document.' These gentlemen sav to us, 'You must adopt It without dotting an I or the crossing of a T," and then they say to us, 'What have you to present pre-sent In place e.f this document, you must accept u without the dotting of an I or the crossing of a T' Hut 1 am trying to, endeavoring lo present an-J other docuifiont. by amending, and that by reservation, and thru other document will protect American ar.d ' American interests, will olfer If any' is lo be offered In place of tho one that Is insisted we should adopt with-! out analysis a! :ill "We are told by the mere Ipse dixit Of ihe prefidcr.i this document niUSt become a part of the law of the land, I decline upon any man's mere Im dixit to adopt anything that imperils the republic. Arid it is shown by the past and is shown by the present that, he Is neither a wise counselor nor a sare guide. I decline to accept bli (ipse dixit and to take his dictum as si controlling. We arc told affain-HUad this I resent that every man on the other side of this question is actuated by some base motive, and the old well worn epithet of pro-German is applied to those who are fighting this covenant. cove-nant. RESENT Tills i HARGE. "I lesent this Kind of argument, The other day in Columbus ihc 'Id Boys who wore the Blue, who saved this Republic fer us, passed a resolution resolu-tion unanimously against the League of Nations. (Applause.) The other day in Iowa the American Legion passed a resolution against this league. The other day In San Francisco a branch of the American Legion, tho Kaki-clad boys who made tho fight abroad, passed their resolution. (Applause (Ap-plause ) Do you dare, or does any man dare to say that these boys, these old boys who wore the blue and saved the country, and these young mi a who mado the fight abroad, in J made the splendid fight across the sr .. ,i,,rs any man, president or otherwise, flare say that tho.e men are actuated bj disloyalty or by pro-Gorman motives in this fight. (Applause.; I resent these epithets of the gentlemen on the other side. And a very singular thing has occurred In this itinerary of ours, the more loyal the man Is who talks of the Fatherhood of God and till Brotherhood of man, the more bitter are tho epithets ho employes, and the abuse that he heaps upon the other side ANSWER ABUSIVE TACTICS. "Let us presume that he is, that everybody that is arguing this question is arguing it from the highest and the loftiest motives, let us assume that those who present this un-American document all present It unwittingly unwit-tingly and unknowingly of Its vast consequences and perils to the Republic. Re-public. But, assuming this for thorn let us insist that they usaumo the same thing and the samo motives to us and do not let us permit them for a moment to swerve us from our, course by any 6ort of abuse of any character. N A nONAL PROPAG A N l "There has been mini) contributing causes to the particular reflex psychology psychol-ogy from this war which have added ' to the sentiment in favor ef thisj league. We have seen something In j our country In the last few years which never before had wo witnesseo, Which 1 hope wo will never witness again, we have had a National governmental govern-mental propaganda by which millions of dollars have been taken from tho taxpayers of our country, taken from them for the dissemination of propaganda. propa-ganda. Now, I tell you what your government is doing not for the purpose pur-pose of disclosing that which it was transpiring at Washington or abroad, but for the purpose of lending power and of covering up tho deficiencies of tho present administration. (.Applause.; (.Ap-plause.; And in this National governmental govern-mental propaganda we have ben picking our pocket.-, and we havo succeeded suc-ceeded admirably in doing that. "And not only Is this one of the contributing causes of the present situation, situ-ation, but thero Is another, we have been Indulging in the lat few years In! repreislon and upprcssien, so that' loyal patriotic Americans have been arraiu to express tn-ir honest sentiments senti-ments because of repression and Mip-presaion Mip-presaion from the government ul Washington (Applause.) And. If we cannot and if we have dom- nothing else In this great donteat than to permit per-mit Americans again to stand up and talk as they plenpe. and us they have a right to do concerning their government, govern-ment, and eoncernlng men In power, if wo have; dono nothing more thnn that in this conflict the entire war will not have been in vain. ENFANT OF PROPOSALS. "All these contributing causes created cre-ated a sentiment in tho country In favor of the league Not only that but the Intense longing In man s and woman's heart was something to prevent pre-vent war. added to it tin- glamor and the sentiment which have surrounded It in these past few days in these paet few months. V be n we began to analyze it, however, when we began to realize Just exactly the burden that it put upon us In this country' we began to understand much of its lnfa.my and some of its infinite possibilities for barm throughout the land. "The president holds aloft tho trenty of peace with guarantees. He says that it is a treaty shot through with American principles, permeafeel with American Idealism, representing American altruism. 1 den it and 1 will demonstrate to you that this treaty that Is presented to us represents repre-sents only the secret treaty so far as disposition of territory and people be concerned, tho secret treaties which were entered into befere we became participants in this war Now. you may not care and I may not care-that care-that there has been this disposition of territory and this disposition of people's peo-ple's upon the earth, that Is not the real question involved, but vou do care and 1 do care that a part of this treaty Is the League of Nation?, and that by the LeagUS of nations you guarantee for all time every territorial disposition and every disposition of peoples that may have been made by the treaty of peace. WILSON'S CHANGED COURSE. 'When tho president went abroad, gentlemen, acclaiming the Amorican principles that he wrote upon the horizon hori-zon of the world you endorsed ihem. I endorsed them. I looked forward, Just as he said would he the case to a now world education where into the great treaty of peacei should be written writ-ten the principles that were fundamental funda-mental with us In our country. You looked at those principles, no doubt, j Just as we at Washington did and you ' had the hope. Just as we did, that lout of the bloody welter of tho war ' would come thl3 new definition of 1 principles to guide and to govern and deliver all humanity for ihe open covenants cov-enants of peace openiv arrived at; no longer were we to have the old kind of diplomacy, and you saw then the treaty written behind closed doors and written wholly In secrecy and stealth. You heard and you agreed as we agreedi that the freedom of the sc-as should be forever guaranteed, and when our president reacheel the other shore there was ono roar from the British Lion and the freedom of tho seas was forever forgotten. You heard that there should bo a careful disposition of ;iu colonial claims, and then you heard no more of It after his departure. You beard ami heard again and again, Just av we did. and you responded with the same enthusi asm, seli-aetermlnatlon of all th-- peoples of tho earth of all subjects hereinafter. self-dctcr-; minatlon was to be written in ;thc new world order, and self-deter-! minatlon was abandoned at Paris Just j liko all the other principles announced before the president's departure You j heard the people should not bo handled hand-led nbout from sovereignty to sov-Jereigntyi sov-Jereigntyi and of their property, and !ou saw- tho InfaJny of tho Shantung Shan-tung decision and others of llko char-lacier, char-lacier, anel tho principle lost forever. You heard tho territory should not 'be given to tho victors In the great war. WE .l IRANTEE PROFITS. "All this may bo of little consequence, conse-quence, ou may, llko I, realize that cut of the war has como gains to certain cer-tain nations anel vast increased prep-orty prep-orty and wealth, but remember that out of this war comes )ust ono non-profiteering non-profiteering nut ion, the '.'tided States of America; remember ;h.i out of !t como with &Very belligerent In the war booty and rpoils and profits; remember re-member that ihe ono now-pfofiteer-lng nation in this war is lr nation In Article Ten the league of nation -.v ill guarantee the profit and the epolN and tho booiy of all the profiteering nations of tho war (Applause). And wo Insist that this Is neither logical nor Just to our people, and w-e prc-elude prc-elude tho possibilities that that sort of guarantee Bhould bo made by our gr a1 nation. Now, I would not have you accept my mere dictum concerning the treaty, and so that you may not belleVji that I am Indulging In mero asset' tions, I want to reatl to jou very I briefly excerpts from tho testimony which has been taken by tho foreign relations committee. "1 want you to understand this treaty, not that we aro Immediately concerned with much that is In it, but because of our infinite concern with our guarantee of its territorial disposition, dispo-sition, and it handing people from sovereignty to sovereignty. Mr. W11-. son says it is an idealistic treaty, per-meatlng per-meatlng with American principles. "At I'arls, when Ir. Williams of tho University of California protested the Shantung decision tho president said quite a different thing. He then said, I am reading the record my friends. I am getting down in this discussion with you to the facts on solid ground With Just common people peo-ple ' The difficulty with our president is that he rides the clouds and he stands on tho rainbow, and he never stands upon solid ground with Just ordinary American common folks. (Applause), I do not question his good Intentions abroad, far from it, and I am not discussing here In hSTSh-ness hSTSh-ness today, nor do I speak so at all in reference to the president, but w hen any man, whether he be president or Whether he bo any other man, stands between me and the old Stars and Strip, s, as I see it, then I am willing to speak with bluntness and with plainness no matter who tho man may be. An American ought ever to speak in that way. (Applause). "( I INK r 1'. J j A i W S (i.UIL." ".Mr. Wilson's difficulty at Paris , was he was sitting In the other fellow's jg.ime We use-d to Imve a saying In i our state in our unregenerated duy?. 'you never hud such, so you won't f j courso' (Laughter) understand but we .used to have a saying In our unregen- orated days, and It ripened almost Into I a proverb In our youth, "Never sit in the other fellow's game,' And the difficult) w ith Mr. Wilson was that at Paris he was sitting in the other fellow's game, and ho got Just exactly ex-actly what every man gets who sits in the other fellow's game. (.Laughter (.Laugh-ter and applause). "U ln a ho was approached in Paris bj Dr. Hornbook and Dr Williams in protest upon the Shantung decision, Air. Wilson, this Is the record my friends, this is the testimony, Mr. WJ1-json WJ1-json said: The war seemed to have been fought to embrace the settlement settle-ment of treaties anel that while some treaties were unconscionable at the mmo time it looked as though they would have to be observed.' bsi i) (n si ki;t TREATIES. "You talk to mo about a treaty shot through with American principles, representing American Idealism that is foundefl upon unconscionable treaties, handing people about from sovereign! y to sovereignty and territories in accordance ac-cordance with secret bargaining, and the president says that the treaty that ho holds aloft as our groat charter of idealism is founded in part at least upon unconaclonubla treaties. r Williams said In his testimony the eeLLlemonts wei o mado substantially 'in accordance with secret treaties that had been mado during the progress Of the war and before our entrance Into the war Not alone do I offer you tho testimony of tho president and of Dr. Williams, but fortunately wo have the testimony as well as of the other American representatives. .Mr. Iiulb-tt in bis testimony before tho foreign relations committeo said It was no secret that Mr. Lansing, General Bliss and Henry White objected ob-jected very vigorously to the numerous provisions of the treaty. "Mr. Lansing said they had to consider con-sider many parts of the treaty thcr-OUghly thcr-OUghly bnd, particularly those dealing with Shantung nnd the League of Nn-tionie Nn-tionie Ho said. "I l onsider that the Lcaguo of Nations at present Is entirely en-tirely useless. Tho great powers have simply gone ahead and adjusted the tvorbi to suit themselves, England and prance in particular have gotten out of the treaty everythinng that they wanted, and the League of Nations can do nothing to alter any of the unjust clausos of tho treaty except by unanimous unan-imous consent of the members of the 0 league, and the great powers will never nev-er give their consent to changes in the interest of general principles. IT SENATE I NDEIt STOOD. "Again, .Mr Lansing said. "J believe that if tho senufe eould only understand under-stand what this treaty means and if th American people could really un-i derstand It would unquestionably be defeated i read von this testimbnyJ first the president of the United States, next the secretary of Mat- of the 1 rilled State, Mr. Bulbil, and' next the testimony of Dr. Williams. I 'To- expert in foreign business, 1 read it to yOu so that you mny understand just what this idealistic document is, by which you aro asked by the League Of Nations, a part of that document, to pledge your treasure, and your' blood in all the years to come, i want ' I to make you understand, H 1 can, not the harshness of the treaty, thai Isn't its purpose, but I wont you to understand under-stand the linntl ess possibilities i f e ery guarantee. "The strangest thing to me in ibis war is that wo entered It for certain specific purposes, we entered it with a real idealism, we fought It with ihe real Idealism, and wo came out of this war getting neither Indemnities, nor reprisals, nor territory, nor peoples, peo-ples, we retained our souls, our ideal-Ism, ideal-Ism, anel I won't lock up that Idealism Ideal-ism in all the days to come with tlu-booties tlu-booties that came from this war for, other nations, however just we may think that booties should be givn unto them (Applause.) That is the situation the treaty presents LIOYD GEORGE'S EXUITATION. "Don't think that I have any animosity ani-mosity or hostility or bitterness with! President Wilson or against .my nation na-tion on the face of tho earth. That is not tho point. 1 want to discuss In terms of anlmlty and friendship with every nation. I want to have our intercourse inter-course with every nation Just as it has been in the pat I want Indeed that wo shall live on friendly terms with every country in all this world ai d prejudice against none I have an admiration ad-miration for the Oreat British Empire. I recognize the Ability and the astute-noes astute-noes and tho w iso statemansbln of the great premier ef Britain, l.loyel George, and I take off m hat to his marvelous activities, not alone during the war, but during the peaco conference con-ference as well I ran exult with you, j my friends, when he stated in '.he l British parliament, ns he did recently, j they had added S'iO.000 square miles I to the Great British Empire j "I can understand his rejolelng w-hen he says that he has added 100.-j 100.-j 000 people to that great nation. I can understand his exultation too when he says that he has arranged it now so that at the beginning of the next war tho United States of American will come in automatically I can understand under-stand how ho went on very proudlj and said (Applause I can understand under-stand how very proudly he went on and he said that the burden of maintenance main-tenance of these great accretions and these greatly Increased territories of the British Empire had been upon tho great virile democracy Of th- world, the ono unspent nation that came out of this war. Ills OfejECTR V "I can understand all this in Lloyd George. I have no objection to his exultation, no objection to his pride, no objection at all to that Which he-says he-says lo his people. I do object though, In recognition of his wisdom and his agreement of making the souk of American guarantee for all time that which ho has done (Applause i lie is a marvelous man At Paris he sat there and he trot just what he wanted; he added his 800,000 square miles to nis territory, lie added to tho people Of his territory, he has made the great citizens of the world, our country, coun-try, guarantee by tho League of Nations Na-tions that territory', and then he was not going to take any chances at all. he looked at the League of Nations and he took six votes for Great Britain, and verv generously gave us one. (Applause, i I take off my hat to David Lloyd George. (Laughter I JAnd mv friends, if I had had the power I would have hired him to represent rep-resent America. (Laughter and ap pluuse. ) 81 M I I FOB X.MLUJt A "But how perfectly silly of our recognising rec-ognising his wonderful accomplishments, accomplish-ments, recoglzlng tho greatness of the British Empire, how perfectly silly of I us lej pledge ourselves forever lo the maintenance of that Empire. Ever man who mt in Paris, save one, was thinking of his own country ( vp- I plause. Every man sitting there In Paris had only one thought, the advancement, ad-vancement, the prosperity, the aggrandisement aggran-disement and the power of his owu country. 'annot we bo permitted, cannot men of the United States be pardoned if they stand up today thinking think-ing only of their country, the United States of America'' (Applause.) And Just an idealistic view that turns them ! In dividing up the earths surface, we have the right to consider in relation to our future destiny. "Remember, we are different from thern over thero in governmental aspect, they look to annexation, they look to increase of territory, they look to aggrandizement of power and the like, we have no such national amld- I tlons, wo arei content with ourselves I to be ourselves. We want neither people nor lands, all the other nations of the earth covet both, all the other nations of the earth by tho treaty received re-ceived both We received neither, and yet we are n.-.ked to guarantee their lands and their increased territory, and to me It is a monstrous proposition. proposi-tion. Wot LD VNSWXSt "I would not be selfish. 1 would not be ungenerous towards any people or towards any nation, that Is not the idea at all In opposing this league. Wo would answer the call to defend the wealth of civilization in the future Just exactly as we over answered it In the pasi 'Applause.) We would do OUI duty by the worfd in the future Just as we ever hovo done It In tho past, always We who oppose this league when the tlmo comes we. and you and tho American people will determine tho time and OUrsalVSS determine how we will act rather than permit foreign nations to determine nnd command how we shall act (Applause.) That Is the greu point of differenre between be-tween our fellows and ourselves SENDING MFV TO WAR 'T want to talk to the women for just a minute. I yield to no woman In her desire to prevent wn r but l ask women whose sentiments and whose hearts have been enlisted In lehalf of the league of nations, consider con-sider whRt Is transpiring today in this land; consider what the league of nations na-tions over in Paris now that is what it Is that is sitting there is reality, consider what it is doing today and then rea.li jour COrlclusloS) whethei this league is designed to promote peace, to prevent war or whether it is designed to protect existing pow-ern pow-ern and designed t" embroil us m every quarrel on ear th If ou hav e followed current events you need little eddcation in this regard. As i came through Omaha the other night I saw the Kreat signs embellished there m the depot, Wanted 50,000 men for service in 50,ooo men for service in1 E irope 50,oon men for serv ice In Europe." Do' you realize what that Is, you women who want no more khaki-clad bpys " iit across the sea. it means simply this. 50,000 men for service in Europe under the league of nations, and that is just what the league of nations is for for khaki-clad khaki-clad boys of ours to go across the sea for service there, for the eventl that have been transpiring over there. ORDERED To SILESIA. "Tho other day from under the sea came a flash of news to us that 7,000 khaki-clad boys of America had America over Into Slh-sla V The sec-coal sec-coal mines there and patrol that territory, ter-ritory, 7,000 American boys ordered from America into Sclesia to patrol coal mines and police territory there We asked the secretary of war. 'were these men, American boys sent from America over into Seleala?' The secretary sec-retary of war said ho didn't know, but he would cable Europe anel ascertain, ascer-tain, and ho cabled to Europe and then he reported to us that. 'yes. 7000 boys had been ordered from America to police Selesla. and patrol coal mines there by the counsel sitting at Paris, tho present league of nations. (Applause). (Ap-plause). LANDED IN DADHATIA. "Wo read again a day or two afterwards after-wards American marines landed at Dalmatla, in Troul, Dalmatla in a dispute that did not concern us at all. We asked the .secretary of the navy, 'what does it mean that Ameri- j I can marines are landed at Troul in I iDalamatla? He eaid he didn't know, r but ho would cable Europe and nscer-. nscer-. tain, ho cabled to Europe and then he , reported to us. 'Yes. American ma-. ma-. rlnes have been landed at Troul, they , have been landed thero under the sec-i sec-i ret orders of the counsel sitting at Paris, tho present league of nations, : and this he added, was the zone which has been given to Americans to police, i your khakl-clad boys sent across the1 1 1 sea, you will have them going across' the sea indefinitely under your league j of nations. (Applause). I Ml SI si ON RHINE. "On the Rhine today there arej 'J thousands of American boys who aro! j condemned SO remain there under tho I I terms of the treaty for fifteen years! in tho future, and under the terms of ! this treaty "under its ery terms we are mixed with the affairs of Europe until 1951. and it will require I American soldiers abroad to do tholi part. While today there are 10.000 American khakl-clad boys over in Si-1 beria eating their hearts out, draftelj to fight a war with Germany, and un-1 un-1 der a secret decreo of the Paris conference con-ference went into Siberia an undeclared unde-clared and an undisclosed w ar. i Ap-' Ap-' plause). The harshest and most touching! half hour I ever spent in my life was' in tho ladles depot at Chicago the! other morning, when I entered there very early in the morning I stepped from the Pullman car and three hundred hund-red American mothers. Just common American mothers that these were. Just American mothers, they were cry-, Ing and weeping with hearts breaking break-ing with sorrow, some that were al-J most starving and begging, praying for word from their sons who bad been drafted to fight a war with Germany, and then under a secret decree of th! league of nations had been condemned I to die over in Siberia. "This Is your league of nations, my I HIS is vol R I I (.t I friends, and this is what it is dotal i today and this le exactly what it is Intended that it shall do in tho future. These are tho facts, and it is the facts, tho Inextricable facts that make the; Issue with Mr. Wilson, nnd confuse you and confuse us In this great crisis. American khakl-clad boys, he says, w ill not be sent beyond the sea, and with his words going round this nation na-tion and on that statemont have tho orders out to send them across tho sea under the secret orders of the Paris conference, and mind you. the ecret conference at tJoncva win be tho same men. or their representatives, representa-tives, as the secret council that the have sitting now at i'arls "Thero is no difference In the two councils at all. not a particle of difference, dif-ference, and American khakl-clad boys will, In a continuous stream, be fighting fight-ing the battles of Europe and of Asia in the days to come under this league of nations which makes ub guarantee the territorial limits of every nation on tho fa e of the earth. So If you mothers believe that there is to be a cessation of boys sent across tho sea i ask vou to just inform yourselves of what is transpiring today, leurn the facts, and the facts will convince you not only of the monstrosity of what Ip possible but of Its very Infamy In-famy entering eur house. Into every town nnd every wall that shall here after uppear Hi RT of LEAGUES" 'Not only this, but at Salt Eake, In your state, the president tho other night made tho Issue very, verv plain, no rn.iri in misunderstand it now. every Individual who has a head on his shoulders that the lxrd put there for some other purpose than mere ornament can fathom now exactly what Is Intended by the president and what his construction of this league of nations is. I won't yield to the president or to any other man in ideal-i ideal-i in I think we know what Idealism Is In the state from which 1 come (Applause). (Ap-plause). "But I want to tell you the difference differ-ence between ns. we talk idealism into the laws of the state of California (Applause) Wo not only talk ourselves, our-selves, we act It ns well, and so coming com-ing from the state that 1 come from will v leld to no man on earth in Ideal ism when it comos to governmental i affairs. Tho president the other night at Salt Eake made very, very plain Juat exactly what hi.' Intention is. PRO I l Tl, AMERICA "Now, tho senate of the United States la seeking to safeguard Amer- 1 lea. it in seeking to have the beneficial bene-ficial folds of the constitution still above us, it is seeking to retain the edd Stars and Stripes in this country. It Is seeking to have you, through your representatives in congress retain re-tain your power and maintain your right to direct, the armed forces of the United States, that is all the senate sen-ate seeks to do. and that is all that Is sought by what you have read of tho reservations that is endeavored to be done, PRAISES REEP SHOOT And 1 ma pause Just a moment to say to vou that the men who aro standing firmly on this question in Washington are entitled not. only to tho praise of their constituents, but entitled to the praise in my opinion of all the American people, i sS;,ni to compliment your own senior senator sena-tor from the state of Utah, Reed Smoot (applause), for the capable fashion in which he Is doing his duty as he. neca it in this great crisis He has not only the rare ability and Indefatigable In-defatigable industry, but he chooses now to stand with the valiant flgh-mg flgh-mg forces for America and the pro-tectlon pro-tectlon of American interests, and I would be wanting not only in courage, cour-age, but in appreciation of K man who has made a good fight if these few words in his behalf I did not dare say to you (applause). Some of us neither require nor care for commendation, com-mendation, some of us have made such fights in the past, we have gone j up ngalnst the guns so often that I when w e see the right or believe we see the right it doeSfl t make any difference dif-ference whether there is commendation commenda-tion or the reverse, we go right ahead and do Just what we think we ought to do ( Applause. ) RESERVATION'S MEANING "Now. the other night at Salt Lake the president read a reservation to the people there. I want you to follow fol-low this reservation anel I want you to understand it. The reservation offered them is simply an expr s-slon s-slon of what we understand a particular par-ticular thing to mean and what we will do under that particular thing. This is the reservation the president read. The United States assumes no obligations under the provisions of Article 10 to preserve lh territorial Integrity of political independence of any other country, or to interfere in controversies botween other nation?, whether members of the league or not, or to employ military oi naval forces of the United States under any arrangement for any purpose unless in any particular case congress which under the constitution has the solo power to declare war or otherwise other-wise tho emplovment of military and naval forces of the United States shall tie accepted on Joint resolution so declare. Tho reservation is Juat this, that the constitution yet lives and that tho congress of tho United States shall have the power to cm-Ploy cm-Ploy the military forces of the United States. (Applause.) M T WILSON SAID 'The reservation. It would seem to it there could be little or no exception excep-tion taken, but here are tho president's presi-dent's words, after ho had read that reservation. 'Now. my fellow ctu-zens." ctu-zens." then there was an applause, and he added. "Now. wait a minute, you want to applaud that, wait until you understand the meaning of it. and If you have a knife in your hands with which you Intend to cut out the heart of this covenant applaud, ap-plaud, but If you want this covenant to have a heart In it and want it lo have the power in it. want it to bo something the red blooded nation withhold your applause, understand this thing before you form your sentiment sen-timent with regard to it This is a rejection of the covenant, this is an absolute refusal to carry any part of tho same responsibility that the other members of the league carry. " Do you realize the full significance of that statement? The president of th? United States, upon whose ipso dixit we arc required to adopt this league of nuons, says to our people, that if you preserve the right of congress, con-gress, that It Is your right to cmqlov tho military and naval forces of the United States you cut out the heart of this covenant and reject it entirely If to retain the constitution of th United States and to have our con-crres con-crres malnaln its power over th? forces of tho United States Is to cut out tho heart of this covenant, wo are going to cut It out, my friends. Applause). BUt tho great significance signifi-cance of tho utterance of "the president presi-dent Is this, the great significance ol that utterance Is that he will net have the reservation which retains the power under the constitution and retains the power in congress to employ em-ploy the military forces of the United Mates Not LD Join in ni LRRELS "And now. my friends, I could stand here and talk for hours and houra upon the various phases of this league, but It possibly would be of little purpose. I want to summarize to you in just a few words. "First: That under the league of nations. 1 say It. nnd the facts have often demonstrated it, your boys arc not going to remain at home, they are going abroad Into every broil. I every emarrel, every controversy of Europe and Asia. "Second I say to you that under! ai ueic iv ou iim" t'liuifu lino u.u individual guarantee In its first de greo for tho territorial integrity ol svery nation on the face of tho earth. Jt is true it says from external ex-ternal aggression, but what has transpired trans-pired In Russia and In Austria whore they have been seeking to keep the I poison of bolshevlsm from going Into othor countries, and what has transpired trans-pired in Russia and Austria will Indicate Indi-cate to you that, after all, no man on earth can dotermine what external aggression Is, and particularly none can saj "hat Is Included In the ISC ond sentence of Artie le 10, what the method or the degree of external aggression ag-gression may be. Do you reallzo that ! If we had had an Article 10 In the league of nations in 177B. it would have been declared en external aggression, ag-gression, and there would have been no United Stales of America. I Applause. Ap-plause. ) LIKE OTHER ALLIANCES 'So under that, its very purpose is to preclude and subject people In the future fre.m obtaining their freedom in any fashion either by internal commission com-mission or rebellion or external aggression. ag-gression. It will be Interpreted Just ijflflHIHIilHijflfl exactly the same as the triple alllan j tho quadruple alliance and the holy 1 alliance I say to you the even's have so made tho issues, and I aay to vou further, that Mr Wilson In j his Salt Lake speaeh and in his Pueblo and his Denver speech subsequently subse-quently mado increasing plain what we knew before, but what now i.O I conclusive. It cannot be denied tnai this league of nations is designed t-. employ the armed forces of -.hi?! l'nited Slates, not in accordance With the constitution of the L'nited Stat.-.-." nor under the authority of the Amerl- S can people, or the American congress con-gress but under tho authority of i, people sitting in secret at Geneva," i iibi of whom ure foreigners. ; ABOUT MONROE DOCTRINE 'I Insist to you that the Monroe, doctrine lnterprctlon that was given to this league at its last session is no pro-It 1 1 tectlon and 1 no safeguard at all.S" and In proof of th offer to yovi H the? conduct of the British delegate?"" who eat thre in Paris, who tell theii people with absolute frankness that ihe amendment is designed whenever" there shall be any dlfft. n't; about th" IJI Monroe doctrine to have the leagues ri.eet that difficult! or that contro-"" vers: And if you understand th Monroe doctrine at all you will know it is peculiarly to ourselves It repre-""" scnts our right of self determination, 25 our arbitrary will to bo exercised, to- br. administered by us and us alone."" I fm and w hen you hand it over to anv? ft a body, to any league, to an nation ancli h n that that body, that league or. II that nation may settle It you destroy" its very vitality, and you eliminate lt altogether as a policy of this nation. k( BURDEN FOR AMERICA ' Beyond all this we understand this-T I ijr league of nations, will imposo a turloui P burden upon the United States ofii America, through its council, that slta In secret over there in Geneva, and" II that by its very terms and Its decrees. US the president makes plain, will dis-pose dis-pose of our faith and of our destiny ' It is the America that we have knowiL.. in the past that is at stake today. We are different from these people acroa I the water I don' r-a iha: v: ;re , an; better, that is not the question aw ! IH all but the men who have been borti: ; here, and the men who have come ' here and have adopted this great na- Ku tlon as theirs, realize that there is a protection in American life and that there II no protection in the life of any other nation on the face of the earth, i Applause.) Ill "WE ARF DIFFERENT VV" ire different from our brcthern across the water, w e have different 'alms, different objects, different aspirations, as-pirations, different governmental de-alres de-alres and different governmental poi ! Cies it is tins difference that we preserve In this nation it is not selfish we do this. It Is not wrong or ungenerous that we should desire and Ight and strive to preserve this which we received from our fathers to hand It over to our sons and our son's sons. The holiest thing thut there is in all flU this world, the most beautiful thing Ikul that there is in political history Is ths Fllll protection of American life. It is ths protection thai leads every man. wo- rtiH nan and child to see the light and ths great love of life. It is this thing in 1131 American life that is bigger to us and Lnl i to us alone, and that we and we alone brought to our people alone. I wan: to pass this thing on to my sons arul . . H j my great sons Just as I received It rilH from my forefathers, and I want this I'M country to be imt selfish, not ungoner-ious, ungoner-ious, but 1 want it to be American, liffl , responding In American fellowship EiSH and American fellowahip alone. (Ap- jt I How AMERICANS I IORT In "I remember las' your some very, A.ti very dark das during the war; I re- j member the Saturdaj mornings, when o 'I sat with ihe military committee of ih United States senate In the office of the secretary of war. and we listen- n led to the expert of the accounts upon T I the west front 1 remember those nl 'Saturday mornings In April and in til! I May and in early June last year: 1 nR ' recall how, upon the colored maps, the 'little gray flags representing the Huns I come down the Marne closer and i Closer and closer to Paris until : I J seemed as if a half day's march . 1 vv-ould enable them tc reach their goaU HI there. I recall how thee-? gray flags were pushed up towards the sea until Half stood with his back to ths wall fighting i remember how, in thou days of April. May and June, th EU black clouds of adversity seemed to gn bung over all the world, and it seen.d as If we were to witness another awful- -- l catastrophe, and then I remember me -dav In the luttcr part of Juno when, under the sea came the news to ut. my friends, em one of the Saturday - In mornings that the American marine fill and the Anvrl. in khakl-clad boys had II stood ihelr ground, and had marched, marched forward. I remember thos flays as if they were yesterday. Your blood nnd my blood was there, and I recall how those lads stood those da with nothing to eat. nothing to drinl. going forward, forward, forward ever""" ..hanging tho whole aspect of that ter- lit rible conflict They were Just American Amer-ican boys, fighting America s fight, fighting It under American principle, i ml under American command, fighting fight-ing for America, fighting for this republic, re-public, not fighting under any league HI of nations at all (Applause). UNDER AMERICA'S FLAG "Just n those bovs fought that fitrht in those days Just will we fight th - Sjj fignt it the day over comes again, that H we must fight that fight, but whffl M that day comes, which, t-iod forbid and pr.vent If possible, when that ds- shall come, then lot us fight it as we i fought it In the past, as Americana for America, for our republic :nde the stars and stripes and under nc f' palyglOt of a foreign nation sitting In ecreoy In ths league. (Applause). ' I say to you In no personal spirit at all the question that I present la greater than the Republican party, n La bigger that tho Democratic party.' ths issue in this struggle lhat Is goltur-on goltur-on today is no political party or group ( f individuals, the issue Is American- Ism. the Issue Is the republic that Washington gave us, tho republic tha I Lincoln saved for us. the republic that-these that-these lads of ours In khaki, so glot-1 iously upheld abroad in the last few" v ears, the issue, my friends, in thf fight is America, and thank Ood, we HjH are yet Americans In America. (Ap-plausel. (Ap-plausel. Rfjl |